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- Tesla, Nikola (Britannica.com)
Provides a picture and biography of the man credited with inventing the electric motor. 5-07
- Gutenberg, Johann (Thinkquest.org)
Provides a biography of the person credited with inventing the printing press. Visitors sometimes misspell as Johan Guttenberg, Guttenburg, Guttenburgh, or Gutenbergh. 7-05
- -03-12-09 How Madoff Pulled It Off (CBS News)
" It's easy, when you're inventing investment account statements out of whole cloth, to make yourself look like a financial wizard."
"Or maybe it isn't. Bernard Madoff put quite a bit of work into it."
"What's clear from the evidence against him is that Madoff never really invested a penny of the $65 billion investors trusted to him. It's not like the guy was skimming a little off the top of his transactons. He didn't buy or sell a share of anything on his investors' behalf. He just took the money and sent back made-up statements." 03-09
- Toilets - History of the Toilet (Toiletology.com)
"There is disagreement over who was the inventor of the modern flush toilet, and flushing out the truth is not easy. Many give credit to THOMAS CRAPPER (1837-1910), an English sanitary engineer, for inventing the valve~and~siphon arrangement that made our modern toilet possible. Then there are others who maintain that our hero was a nameless MINOAN (a native of ancient Crete) who lived some 4,000 years ago. And then there are those who give the credit to ALEXANDER CUMMING who patented a flushing device in 1775." 11-04
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